books about: bacchae     books:       Bakkhai (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)1 review Euripides Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 Foolish Pentheus resists the worship of the god Dionysus "Bakkhai" ("The Bacchae") was written by Euripides when he was living in Macedonia in virtual exile during the last years of his life. The tragedy was performed in Athens after his death as part of a trilogy that included one extant play, "Iphigenia at Aulis," and one which is lost, "Alcaeon in Corinth." These factors are important in appreciating this particular Greek tragedy because such plays ...             Euripides: Bacchae. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus (Loeb Classical Library No. 495)1 review Euripides Loeb Classical Library, 2003 A Good Bilingual Edition In Spite of a Few Errors This is the sixth and final volume of the new LOEB edition of Euripides, edited and translated by David Kovacs. The new LOEB edition of Euripides is an enormous improvement over the old LOEB Euripides which it replaces. The old edition featured translations by A.S.Way which, in addition to being of the lowest possible literary quality,were often wildly unfaithful to the Greek original. ...             Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Vol 1)2 reviews Euripides, Slavitt David R, ... University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 a return to classics I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as ...             Four Plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (Focus Classical Library)1 review Euripides Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2002 student review I found all 4 plays in this book easy to read & easy to get into...this book was awesome & has made me a fan of Euripides.             The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite3 reviews Wole Soyinka W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 Soyinka's Translation Brings Diversity to the Ancient Soyinka's translation of Sophocles' ancient work brings new life to the piece so many have already read. His version of the poem incorporates his opinions--as shaped while growing up in Africa--into the ancient work, and the translation brings a fresh take on the play. I advise it to be read alongside a "traditional" reading of the play if in a classroom setting, so that the ancient ideas are ...             Euripides' Bacchae: Translation, Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library) Steven Esposito Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 1998             The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version1 review C. K. Williams Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990 The Most Aweful I've Yet to Read While I haven't read much Greek tragedy, and this is my first Euripides play, the Bacchae is the most aweful I've yet to read. The fury of a god spurned by his family and city had me entranced in awe. I still can't quite understand it. I just had to be still and let its terrible beauty wash over me -- to experience it. I imagine that the audience at its first performance was full of fear and ...             The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Euripides Penguin Classics, 2006 Essential but... Vellacott's translations of Euripides are the greatest voice anyone has given Euripides... This last volume contains high voltage energy! The Bacchae is his masterpiece and the main attraction! The only thing about this edition is that Vellacott in the 1970's revised his original putting much of the text into verse, and taking out the original prose. I find the 1954 original much much ...             Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 7)4 reviews Euripides University Of Chicago Press, 2002 Very fine version The three plays presented in "Euripides V" are all important works: Electra, The Phoenician Women, and The Bacchae. The editors are David Grene (who translated and provided the Introduction to "The History" by Herodotus) and Richmond Lattimore. Both are well reputed scholars of the classics. Before each play, they provide useful context and critical evaluations of the work. Emily Townsend ...             Bacchae11 reviews Euripides Hackett Publishing Company, 1998 One of the best translations out there I am a classical history major with a focus on poetry and drama. I have actually read Bacchae in Attic Greek and I have to say that I find this translation to be one of the most fluid and natural of any that I have ever read. I would highky recommend this to anyone looking for a well-written, very gory introduction to Greek theatre. This edition is also great for using as a script, wheras many ...             Fabulae: Volume III: Helena, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus (Oxford Classical ...2 reviews Euripides Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 Diggle's edition of Euripides for Oxford Classical Texts This edition is superb, a worthy successor to its immediate predecessor, Gilbert Murray's, which of course had to be brought up to date and is now richly, usefully, and definitively supplanted. Diggle is a consummate textual critic--and (icing on the cake) a winsome latinist.             Bacchae Euripides, Translated by Ian Johnston Richer Resources Publications, 2008 Euripides' Bacchae, the last of the surviving Greek tragedies, was not performed during the lifetime of the playwright. Its first production took place a year later (in 405 BC) in the annual competition for tragic drama, where it won first prize. It has remained one of the best-known and most frequently performed Greek tragedies ever since, one of the greatest works of classical Greek culture. The Bacchae holds up a desparate view of human ...             Euripides and Dionysus: An Interpretation of the Bacchae (Bristol Classical Paperbacks.) R.P. Winnington-Ingram Duckworth Publishers, 2003 Euripides and Dionysus is a brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in which he appears. The play has been intensively discussed by critics and very often staged, imitated and adapted in the fifty years since Winnington-Ingram wrote this pioneering monograph, which is still cited as if it were a contemporary work of criticism. His interpretation, presented with great elegance, ...             Bacchae (Plays of Euripides)1 review Richard Seaford Aris & Phillips, 1996 A good book for students This book is great for students of Greek. The commentary is helpful on several levels in that it both explains issues of grammar and gives background on and insight into the play itself. Seaford, howver is not the best translator. He gives literal translations, which is good in some respects for students who may otherwise be confused. It is clear, from his translations, that his interest is ...             Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Vol 1)2 reviews Euripides, Slavitt David R, ... University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 a return to classics I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as ...             The Bacchae Euripides Digireads.com, 2005              search for books andromache, aulidensis, bacchae, bakkhai, bristol, classical, classics, communion, complete, dionysus, electra, euripides, fabulae, heracles, hippolytus, interpretation, introduction, iphigenia, library, orestes, paperbacks, penguin, phoenician, phoenissae, series, tragedies, tragedy, translation, translations, version books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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